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EXTENDED: An order banning street drinking in Worcester city centre has been extended for a further three years A BAN on street drinking in the city centre will be extended for a further three years after plans were backed by councillors. The public space protection order (PSPO) bans the drinking of alcohol throughout the city centre - and several other parts of Worcester - and also forces people to give up their booze. The PSPO applies to the whole of Worcester’s city centre and additional areas at Cranham Drive and Windermere Drive in Warndon, King George V playing fields, an area around Rose Avenue in Tolladine and the Blackpole Industrial Estate.
A MARQUEE in a pub car park and an empty space in the theatre are just some of the more unusual polling stations in and around Worcester. Best of all, you might be paying a visit to one of them if you are taking part in the local elections this Thursday (6 May). Here’s everything you need to know about the May 6 elections- including a run down of the quirkiest polling stations in and around Worcester:
When are polling stations open until and where is my local station? On May 6, polling stations open 7am and close at 10pm. Any voters who are in the polling station, or in a queue outside it, by 10pm will be able to apply for a ballot paper.
THE battle for one of three places representing the city’s Cathedral ward on Worcester City Council always proves to be interesting with tightly fought contests and narrow victories happening here more than possibly anywhere else in the city. The city’s biggest ward, which covers the city centre all the way to Diglis, means it is an important seat for the council’s two biggest parties. Covering the city centre means the ward has a long list of issues which the coronavirus pandemic will have done nothing but intensified and how the city, and especially the city centre, recovers from lockdown will be of utmost importance here.